Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-10 Thread Paul Smith
%% Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks for the note... pj> On 9 Nov 2001, Paul Smith wrote: >> Subject: A RH package won't work on Debian pj> This is normal. It's a bug on Red Hat's side, as RH packages rarely pj> work right on RH. Hey, you're preaching to the conve

Re: debootstrap

2001-11-10 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 19:34, Tom Allison wrote: > Where can I find LOTS of documentation on this debootstrap program? > It seems that this is being used to replace the old base*.tgz files that > I'm so familiar with. > > I'm trying to figure out how to do a remote installation with near zero > d

tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
When backing up directories do I need the -p option to save file attributes, ownership... or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR do I not need -p and it is done by default? I don't really understand this option and I want to make sure that if I have to recover a filesystem that when I untar

tar split into 650M sizes

2001-11-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Is there a way to run tar on a direcory that is 2Gig and have tar create multiple file that are 650M each? Yes, I am trying to create a CD backup. None of the programs I have seen create 650M tarballs. They all go directly to multiple CD's. I would like to create the multiple ISO's first. The

problem with gnome (mouse can not move)

2001-11-10 Thread wqh
I install wooody,at the beginning, I install the base system and then I use base-config to let it install others aumatically, but after download 330M files, it said something was wrong,and can not finished it aumatically.Then I use dpkg -i * to install all the package whick are possible to insta

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi timo i like to ask more detailed stuff... here's some simpler answers... - as others have said, download and install logcheck or equivalent -- Debian security howto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ -- patch your kernel - add libsafe, ow1, etc

Problem in my CD-Roms

2001-11-10 Thread Ali sasani
Dear technicians of Site, Hello, I hope you have the great time. I want to ask questions about my corrupt CD-ROMS. I hope you help me. In fact our four number of CD-ROM were corrupted and I don’t know how to repair them. I contact with the manufacturer of products but they said me that the de

Re: CR/LF

2001-11-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011109 18:13]: why switch? how about: > #include > > int main() > { > char ch; > > while(!cin.eof() ){ > cin.get(ch); if(ch != '\r') { cout << ch; } > } > > return 0; > } (see also /usr/bin/tr for

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0600, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:31:29PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the ve

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error > "Cannot create browser instance" Move your ~/.mozilla directory somewhere else and let Moz recreate it. I bet it works now. Do you use something other than one of the pre-packaged

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ian Patrick Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011109 21:56]: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:45:08PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:09:24PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > > > > > This is the error that finally drove me back to Galeon... I found that I > > > loved i

Re: tar split into 650M sizes

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:32:57AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to run tar on a direcory that is 2Gig and have tar > create multiple file that are 650M each? > > Yes, I am trying to create a CD backup. None of the programs I have > seen create 650M tarballs.

Re: mailcap format code

2001-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on loading netscape, i get the following message: > > Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ > > i've checked the mailcap man page, which suggests that format codes > begin with %{ are part of the scheme of things, and i've also checked > the mail

Re: True Type Fonts on Potato

2001-11-10 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:39:58 +0100, Ville Uski wrote: > * Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011109 12:10]: > > Than I went through the archives for Debian specific information and > > came across a pointer to a Debian TrueType Mini-Howto. Unfortunately > > I was unable to find such a do

Audio-CD not readable

2001-11-10 Thread Angel Parra
Hello!! k I have some audio-cd's that can`t be readed on my CD-reader (and I think that in no one) This CD's are the new "anti-copy" tecnique. I nearly sure that the secret off the anticopy is to pot wrong CRC on fisical media, on some samples. Of course the discograpic give you a player, for

Re: Backspace is delete

2001-11-10 Thread Michael Robinson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >You should probably read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Search >for "Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some other key work?". It's >possible you've got too many uses of xmodmap and .Xresources >*Translations - backspace and delete *should* work co

run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)

2001-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. I wonder if I have a way to run dselect from my faster memory rich machine. nfs+chroot came to my mind as possiblility. Anyone have experience/opinion? Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^

Re: Problem in my CD-Roms

2001-11-10 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Ali sasani wrote: > Dear technicians of Site, > Hello, I hope you have the great time. I want to ask questions about my > corrupt CD-ROMS. I hope you help me. > In fact our four number of CD-ROM were corrupted and I don’t know how to > repair them. I contact with th

portmap nfs/rpc ports?

2001-11-10 Thread Igor Mozetic
Can one specify/restrict the range of high numbered ports used by portmapper for nfs? I'm aware of /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = MIN MAX but I would like to force the portmapper to use ports _outside_ this range in order to close them by a (non-stateful) firewall. Please CC to

Re: debootstrap

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 19:34, Tom Allison wrote: Where can I find LOTS of documentation on this debootstrap program? It seems that this is being used to replace the old base*.tgz files that I'm so familiar with. I'm trying to figure out how to do a remote installati

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-10 Thread Timo Boewing
Original Message Subject: Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:24:34 -0800 (PST) From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Timo Boewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "Debian User (en)" hi timo i like to ask more detailed stuff... here's some simp

Holiday Gifts: Low Price on costume Jewelry

2001-11-10 Thread nicemail

playmperg and framebuffer problems

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian potato + Progeny + 2.4.3 kernel machien with an ATI Rage video card. When I fire up plaympeg (even with the --novideo switch) it seems to put my video card in a scan rate that's too high for my monitor (the minitor puts up a synch lost message, but the audio plays). Any sugestiosn

Re: Problem in my CD-Roms

2001-11-10 Thread keith frost
I just recieved some cd's in the mail that show up blank on linux, but on my wifes w9x machine there fine. --- Ali sasani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear technicians of Site, > Hello, I hope you have the great time. I want to ask > questions about my > corrupt CD-ROMS. I hope you help me. > I

can't insmod wd with debian 2.2r3

2001-11-10 Thread kirill nelus
Hi !   I have an old ISA NIC: SMC EtherCard Plus Elite 16 Combo (WD/8013EW) It works fine with Windows 98, Mandrake Linux, Coyote Linux Router however in Debian 2.2r3 insmod wd fails (neither with io=0x280 irq=5 nor with autoprobe). Where is the problem ?   sincerely, Kirill Nelus  

vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get abcde working on a potato + progeny + 2.4.3 kernel machine.. I actually have it working using lame, but In the spirit of Debian, I'd like to get rid of the questionable mp3 format. I grab vorbis from sourceforg, but I had a problem getting one of the libraries to compile (missing

Progeny -> woody?

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
I've looked at the Progeny page on this, and it looks a bit scary to atempt on a machine that I need to keep working. Can anyone thta has atempted this give me some feedback? Sucess, _and_ failure stories apprecited. Also some cometary on what nice features might have disapeared in this "upgrade".

/var/log/messages on the desktop

2001-11-10 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to their desktops ?? sort of like the following desktop-screenshot at the bottom http://indigo.ie/~fowler/screenshot.jpg thanks

Mutt - Procmail Question

2001-11-10 Thread Jijo Jose A
hi all still i used procmail 3.21.20010831.3.22pre-1 for mail processing and mutt 1.3.22-1 as MUA, to remove the unwanted headers i wrote '|cat | formail -k -X From: -X Return-Path: -X Date:.. >>my_mbox' in .procmailrc as the action line for a condition. but i started 'mutt -f my_mbox ', my_m

Fetchmail - Socket problems?

2001-11-10 Thread Tobias Bengtsson
I've just managed to set up procmail, mutt, fetchmail and exim and it seems to work fine to some extent. I noticed yesterday that, while fetching mail from the POP server, fetchmail halts with a socket error as soon as a mail was larger than 10,000 octets. Now this troubles me, although I don't thi

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-10 Thread Ian Balchin
Brenda, hi, > > > The lpr switch -i appears to do nothing for the margin. Thus, > > The bad news is, according to the lpr man page, "this option > is not supported on all printers". Not on my man page it doesn't Despite the fact that at install time I gave the command line parameters for lp (l

Re: CR/LF even better

2001-11-10 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > #include > #include Are you posting homework assignments here, or are you unaware of the much simpler ways to do this? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If this fortune didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.

true type fonts

2001-11-10 Thread Matt Fair
Does anyone know where I can get true type fonts? Like a debian package? Thanks, Matt

apache upgrade stops logging

2001-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
Yesterday I upgraded apache to the testing 1.3.22-2 and entries are no longer being made to the access.log. The other logs (error, agent, and referrer) are still being written to. Doing a diff on the old/new httpd.conf and srm.conf files reveals no changes relating to logging. How do I get my acce

Re: Progeny -> woody?

2001-11-10 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Saturday 10 November 2001 09:23, Stan Brown wrote: > I've looked at the Progeny page on this, and it looks a bit > scary to atempt on a machine that I need to keep working. > > Can anyone thta has atempted this give me some feedback? > Sucess, _and_ failure stories apprecited. Also some cometary

Re: Multiple SCSI Drives

2001-11-10 Thread sloopy malibu
on 11/6/01 7:19 PM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this message > I have a question about using more than one SCSI disk wil ext2 file > systems on them. It has been my experience with m68k Mac's that the > system will hang after a while when it has to deal with more than one > SCSI

Printer 'HPLaserJ@mansha' - cannot open connection - Connection refused

2001-11-10 Thread Pankaj Jangid
hi all, I am having printer on a win2k machine and I want to use it from my Debian GNU/linux machine. I have lprng installed. I am using testing distribution of Debian. I am giving this command # lpc - PHPLaserJ -Smansha -Uncstvshi\\pankaj debug it prints these two lines: Printer '[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Backspace is delete

2001-11-10 Thread dman
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 05:39:27PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: | Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >You should probably read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Search | >for "Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some other key work?". It's | >possible you've got too many uses of xmod

Re: true type fonts

2001-11-10 Thread DvB
Matt Fair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know where I can get true type fonts? Like a debian > package? > Thanks, > Matt > try apt-get install msttcorefonts. Then you might want to read the howto: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html HTH

Re: tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > When backing up directories do I need the -p > option to save file attributes, ownership... > or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR > do I not need -p and it is done by default? > I use -p on the extraction side and it works fine. Also, from the man page: -p, --s

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

2001-11-10 Thread Craig Dickson
Stan Brown wrote: > I grab vorbis from sourceforg, but I had a problem getting one of the > libraries to compile (missing header file). If you have problems building vorbis, you might want to ask about that on the vorbis list. I'm sure the address is on vorbis.com or xiph.org. Sorry, I don't hav

ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread DvB
... it's in as of 2.4.15-pre2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.15.log

Mounting samba shares...

2001-11-10 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi there? is there an easy way to mount samba shares in a linux desktop, kind of what you do in windoze like \\10.100.100.100\userdir? Gnomba doesn't see the shared user directories as shares and I don't know how to specify them in it... I know you can put a line in /etc/fstab, but sometimes i ne

Re: Cant login

2001-11-10 Thread John Lord
Hi Steffen , On 08-Nov-01, you wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 14:30, John Lord wrote: >>> 1. Make sure that this problem is caused by xfree package 4.1.0-7 by >>> updating to the most current ones. >> I have 4.1.0-7 installed atm, and yes this does seem to be the problem. >> Hope to be sorting

Re: run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)

2001-11-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:52:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. > > I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. I have 486DX 33 12 Mb, and found out that after selecting packages to install I could reduce the memory used by dselect by

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:10:50AM -0600, DvB wrote: > ... it's in as of 2.4.15-pre2 > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.15.log Great, they're weren't even done with 2.4.14 yet. Is it just me, or are they churning out releases too damn fast for comfort? I am reassured

Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip

2001-11-10 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I am now stuck. I am unable to get sound out of the box in front of me, and I am at the end of the list of things I can try. I have a machine based on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX. It has a 1.2 Ghz AMD and 512Mb. I have managed to establish that the sound chip on the board requires the es1371 module, an

Learn how to be a $100,000 earner

2001-11-10 Thread Globalgoldrush
Network Marketing is BOOMING on the Web! Learn how we're sponsoring OVER 300,000 monthly worldwide without mailing anything, without faxing anything, without calling anyone! Totally Internet and system-driven and we've only scratched the surface. Get started FREE! Sign up as an affiliate at: ww

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Michael P. Soulier wrote: | Great, they're weren't even done with 2.4.14 yet. Is it just me, | or are they churning out releases too damn fast for comfort? I am | reassured by Debian's slow release cycle that it will be of high | quality. Kernel.org is slowly becoming as bad as

Re: /var/log/messages on the desktop

2001-11-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Sunny Dubey([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > hey, > > how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to > their desktops ?? > > sort of like the following desktop-screenshot at the bottom > > http://indigo.ie/~fowler/screenshot.jpg > Maybe you mean this

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Ian Balchin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Despite the fact that at install time I gave the command line parameters > for lp (lp port=0x378, irq=7) and this was accepted as 'installation > successful', I see at boot time references to 'polling' > > I had tried to add this line >

building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to the definite reference on how to do this? Thanks,

Creating mp3's or vobis's from non CD sources?

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
I'm just figuring out all of the audio things I can do with my Linux machne. Pretty neat stuff. Today, I'm reading in all my CD's! Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big task), and I'm willing t

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Great, they're weren't even done with 2.4.14 yet. Is it just me, or are > they churning out releases too damn fast for comfort? release early, release often. it's easier to locate and correct bugs in "small change" releases than it is

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Charles Baker
--- Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Charles > Baker wrote: > > When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error > > "Cannot create browser instance" > > Move your ~/.mozilla directory somewhere else and > let Moz recreate it. I > bet it works no

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-10 Thread Brenda J. Butler
> I thought that I had fixed up color on the ls command but it seems not. > I am logged in as user not root > > The mini Colour-ls HOWTO said to add certain lines into .bashrc - well > they were already there so I uncommented them. Once you uncomment them you have to run the script again. You

Re: tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > When backing up directories do I need the -p > option to save file attributes, ownership... > or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR > do I not need -p and it is done by default? > > I don't really understand this option and I > want to m

vhosts policy?

2001-11-10 Thread Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Are there any policies for vhosts? - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvtd20ACgkQCx+ABR2dqkK+0gCf

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Paul Smith
SSL support in Mozilla is broken out into a separate package, PSM (Personal Security Manager). To use it, you need to install the mozilla-psm package as well. HTH. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA So

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 19:27, Charles Baker wrote: > > I can't get Mozilla nor Galeon 0.12.4 to display https > pages. for instance https://login.yahoo.com/ and even > going to http://login.yahoo.com, filling in my uid and > pw and pressing submit yeilds nada. You probably don't have mozilla-psm in

Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
OK, I'v got the bug. I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a computer for Christmas :-) Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror system component? Seems to me tahe niose sheidling would be priority No.1, followed closely by a reaso

trying to verify contents of my tar archive

2001-11-10 Thread Kurt Lieber
I've been using Karsten Self's sample backup script available in the Linux Backup mini-FAQ at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html This script basically uses tar to archive a list of directories to tape and then verifies the backup as well. When I run the script, the output i

Re: Fetchmail - Socket problems?

2001-11-10 Thread Cam Ellison
I am having similar problems with a cable modem connection. I haven't been able to determine the exact size, but one or two large files have the same effect as several (usually more than 10) messages. Fetchmail indicates it is ready to receive, waits (for nothing), and then eventually gives up

Postfix troubles (rewriting addresses)

2001-11-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, to rewrite my mail address correctly (ppp connection to university ISP), I inserted the following lines in the config files: - /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mailout.uni-bonn.de myhostname = wabe.germanistik.uni-bonn.de masquerade_domains

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > It's a conscious choice. I've read that Alan Cox is a big fan of lots > of small-change releases rather than a few big ones. I guess it makes sense to release that way, I just wish they versioned a little differently, s

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Mike Fontenot
Erik Steffl wrote: > e.g. gimp can read xwd files, there's /usr/bin/xwdtopnm, I guess there > are other programs as well... I couldn't find xwdtopnm on my system. Is it part of some debian package? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vhosts policy?

2001-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:52:26PM +0100, J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Are there any policies for vhosts? No. Daniel Stone is working on a vhost-base (or vhosts-base? Can't remember) package which might help to establish one. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:13, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a > .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:13:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to t

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-10 Thread Victor Julien
Hi Dominique, Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. Going back to libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in combination with libc6 seems to be the problem. Good luck, Victor On Friday 09 November 2001 20:25, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:46:13 -05

Re: Mutt - Procmail Question

2001-11-10 Thread John Patton
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:48:00PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: > hi all > still i used procmail 3.21.20010831.3.22pre-1 for mail processing and mutt > 1.3.22-1 as MUA, to remove the unwanted headers i wrote '|cat | formail -k -X > From: > -X Return-Path: -X Date:.. >>my_mbox' in .procmailrc as t

proftpd root login not possible anymore

2001-11-10 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi... Since my last "apt-get dist-upgrade", I can't login anymore as "root" on my local ftp server. My proftpd.conf file contains the "RootLogin on" option as needed, but it simply does not work. That annoys me, because I use it in emacs, when I want to edit files as root. Any idea/suggestion ?

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: It's a conscious choice. I've read that Alan Cox is a big fan of lots of small-change releases rather than a few big ones. I guess it makes sense to release that way, I just wish they version

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-10 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:40:24 +0100, Victor Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Victor> Hi Dominique, Victor> Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. Going back to Victor> libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in combination with libc6 seems to Victor> be the problem

Re: run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:52:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. I have 486DX 33 12 Mb, and found out that after selecting packages to install I could reduce the memo

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> I went from the stable kernel in potatoe to 2.4.9 to 2.4.12. I had to > get to 2.4.12 because 2.4.9 had some irda problems. > > I won't get getting into 2.4.15 for a while yet as I'm curious to see > how this ext3 really shakes out and how it's used. 2.4.15-pre2 locks my box hard... > After

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me

Fetchmail changes?

2001-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a disasterous update to my main server last weeked - in that I tried to do a testing upgrade and found that many of my applications would no longer work I restored some things via a backup, but during the week I have noticed a problem Using

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Mike Fontenot
Nate wrote: > doesn't look like its available on debian. as for fundamental > i can't imagine how it is. if it was it would be included. Well, it's the CAPABILITY that's fundamental. Given an X dump, it's reasonable to want to print out that image. The program xpr converts the X dump to a post

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: After all, wouldn't I have to reinstall everying on a new set up partitions in order to get the support for ext3??? No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2.

remote install progress?

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
OK, so I nuked a partition and started building a new Debian installation using a floppy disk to boot from. I'm trying to put together something here that I can have someone use to boot a computer 1,000 miles away and I can use SSH to install everything else necessary to turn that computer int

Re: Fetchmail - Socket problems?

2001-11-10 Thread Tobias Bengtsson
Cam Ellison went something in the lines of: > A look through Google suggests that part of the problem may be the server. Hmm, thanks. I'll look in to the server, to see if there's any problems on that end. But would that be fetchmail specific? I can get mail just fine with any win client, although

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each > >partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward > >compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs > > > >J. > > So, unlike what

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:45:17PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/ has just about all the references, > including the New Maintainer's Guide. Thanks. I glanced at the packages needing maintainers, and I'm not sure I'm qualified to handle any on that list. I'm a dec

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: See, there's no difference between "converting" and "starting from scratch'. Starting from scratch would mean create a ext2 filesystem and add the journal file to it, etc... (And this is absolutely great!) Read some documentation on ext3: http://people.spoiled.org/j

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:48:34PM -0700, 57j ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? > > Thanks, > Cathy Cramer There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager di

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:10:20PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thank you. I found only two "tr" files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and > the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that > before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils,

Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There is also a major pause prior to the Gnome splash screen coming up.

Woody and XFree driver for voodoo 3500 TV

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
since the upgrade, video performance is pretty bad. What could cuase this? Thanks,

Re: Audio-CD not readable

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Angel Parra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello!! > k > I have some audio-cd's that can`t be readed on my CD-reader (and I > think that in no one) This CD's are the new "anti-copy" tecnique. I > nearly sure that the secret off the anticopy is to pot wrong CR

Re: Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?

2001-11-10 Thread Aniartia
On Saturday 10 November 2001 19:03, Stan Brown wrote: > OK, I'v got the bug. > > I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a > computer for Christmas :-) > > Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror > system component? Seems to me tahe n

snmpd eating memory

2001-11-10 Thread Quietman
I have a strange problem with one of my potato boxes, snmpd sits and slowly eats up all the memory. The box in question has hand-built 2.2.17 kernel, snmpd 4.1.1-2. Since being started on 27th October it is now using 90596k according to memstat, this on a 96meg box. I cannot work out what is goin

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-10 Thread Victor Julien
Hmmm, weird, tried your suggestion, and now it works fine. Even with libc6-2.2.4-5. I thought that 'make install' in the nvidia_glx directory removed all conflicting files... Well, everything is fine now. Thanx On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:54, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001

update problems

2001-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing but I had not updated it for several months It failed - disasterously - in that everything started

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip

2001-11-10 Thread Felix von Delius
hi keith, i have a GA-7ZXR, also with onboard sound. to let the sound work i have compiled the kernel (2.4.13) with the following options: CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m ...the command lsmod gives me the following output: wind:/usr/src/linux# lsmod Module Size Used by NV

Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? Thanks,

Re: Problem in my CD-Roms

2001-11-10 Thread sloopy malibu
on 11/10/01 3:41 AM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this message > Dear technicians of Site, > Hello, I hope you have the great time. I want to ask questions about my > corrupt CD-ROMS. I hope you help me. > In fact our four number of CD-ROM were corrupted and I don’t know how to >

Re: remote install progress?

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:22:51PM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK, so I nuked a partition and started building a new Debian > installation using a floppy disk to boot from. > > I'm trying to put together something here that I can have someone use to > boot a computer 1,000 mi

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:37:34PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:10:50AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > ... it's in as of 2.4.15-pre2 > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.15.log > > Great, they're weren't even done with 2

Re: /var/log/messages on the desktop

2001-11-10 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-11-10 14:40): > how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to > their desktops ?? Try the package root-tail. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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